Mindy Marks

Mindy Marks conducts research in applied microeconomics with an emphasis on labor, education, and health topics. Her projects to date involve large-scale empirical evaluations that use careful statistical analysis to determine underlying causal relationships. Current research interests include historical estimates of intergenerational mobility, the impact of occupational licensing laws on labor markets, the demographic consequences of mandatory school choice, and the impact of marital status disclosure on job search success. Her work has been published in theReview of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Human Resources, theJournal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Health Economics and other outlets.

 

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

“Teacher Testing Standards and the New Teacher Pipeline,” with Marc Law and Tomer Stern (graduate student), forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources.

“For Better or for Worse? Fertility Challenges and Marital Dissolution,” with Neha Agarwal, conditionally accepted, Economic Inquiry.

“Short-Term Labor Supply Response to the Timing of Transfer Payments: Evidence from the SNAP Program,” with Silvia Prina and Redina Tahaj, Labour Economics, Volume 91 (2024), 102636.

“The Impact of Scope-of-Practice Restrictions on Access to Medical Care,” with Angela Kilby and Jianpei Gao, Journal of Health Economics, March 2024.

“Did Early Twentieth-Century Alcohol Prohibition Affect Mortality?” with Marc T. Law, Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58: 680–697.

“Baby Boomlets and Baby Health: Hospital Crowdedness, Treatment Intensity, and Infant Health,” with M. (Kate) Choi, American Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 5(3), 376–406.

“The Labor Market Effects of Occupational Licensing Laws in Nursing,” with Marc Law, Industrial Relations, 2017, 56(4), 640–661.

 

WORKING PAPERS

“The Wage Penalty for Motherhood in Developing Countries,” with Jorge Aguero and Neha Raykar.

“Persistence in Season of Birth: A New Measure of Intergenerational Mobility,” with A. R. Shariq Mohammed, under review at the Journal of Economic Studies.

“From Disclosure to Blank: The Effect of Marital Status on Job Search Success,” with Simin Yuan, Taoxiong Liu, Lizi Yu, and Shuo Zhang.